Embiid is hilarious on twitter. He tried to get LeBron to go to Philly lol
LOL Dallas.
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He’s only good for stories at this point though, can’t really hate the guy off the court when part of the reason he moved to Utah was to get surgery for his daughter, a specialist was out there for more direct intensive care, choosing that doctor above all others. Similar to part of Derek Fisher moving around when he did too. That’s something that won’t be publicized to stop the hate, from cleveland’er’s?
Last SLAM, throwback issue, “Dajuan Wagner, if he stayed healthy? And I was there! Lebron Wouldn’t have left Cleveland!”
Take the Bulls deal Minnesota. You wait too long you will end up with nothing and Golden State have taken Klay off the table because you already blew one deal.
Don’t start making start decisions now! You’ll love Taj, trust me.
I’ll say it again - nothing the Bulls can offer short of Noah or Rose is anywhere close to Kevin Love. Butler and Gibson are a joke in comparison.
A joke.
mavs just voided the rashard lewis deal. he’s gonna need knee surgery.
PBT talking about some eastern conference teams trying to help out the cavs get kevin love, and then i remembered why i hate going to PBT.
Shhhhhhh.
Minnesota. …this deal totally is beneficial for both sides.
On the real tho a deal with Taj, Miotic, Butler, and a pick is about as good as they are gonna get from any team. Nobody they are gonna get will be as good as Love so they might as well collect good players that can produce from day 1. I still think Minnesota fucked themselves not taking the Klay deal and GS won’t put that back on the table now.
Minnesota doesn’t really have any leverage especially compared to GS who has a young team and time imo. I don’t see why these teams can’t just wait Minnesota out till his contract is up or almost up. Shit the Wolves shouldn’t even be able to strong arm CLE into giving up Wiggins? Why? All Cle or GS has to do is wait one year and they can have both.
Not exactly sure what each team’s cap space situation is in a year, but I imagine they wouldn’t be able to afford Kevin Love straight up, so they have to work a trade. Also, teams may want to get him before he ends up on another team.
It’s like a chess game now. Trade now and get some pieces? Wait to see if other teams try to one up each other with better offers? Wait until trade deadline to see what happens? MIN could get something better if they wait…or get jack shit if they wait too long.
You keep asking for equal value, but he’s on the trading block cuz they really don’t want to lose him and get nothing in return when its looking likely that he’s not staying.
In other news, late as it may be, the Kings are champions! Now I’m prepared for the inevitable “When’s the last time your team has won anything?” <_<
Also, Boogie on Grantland finally happened, although no Jalen. No link cuz crappy mobile : /
minnesota is gonna get a raw deal, but they need players who are ready now, and they need someone who can generate offense. the closest to being that was the warriors rumored deal, but warriors are being a bunch of bitches about klay.
You’ll never get equal value for a player like Love, true - but that doesn’t mean you turn yourself into a bargain basement.
Gibson and Butler are role players that flourished in Thibs’ system. That’s it. They aren’t even close enough to get a conversation started for Love.
The best deal was with GSW. Even without Klay, Iggy and David Lee are better choices than what Chicago is offering.
I think Minnesota is stuck in taking the Cleveland deal. Team up Wiggins w/ Shabazz and start your core there.
Wolves have the best PR/media department in the NBA.
Could never forget this classic.
Mavs signed Aminu, so it looks like Marion is gone.
Love could just stay in Minny, dunno why people want to leave some of these teams so bad. Just take the money and chill. LBJ had higher expectations but most players aren’t required to win a championship to be considered good, especially when there is a known superstar or two already in the league like LeBron and Durant. A guy like Love really only needs 1 title at most to cement his legacy and be considered great. Dirk only has the 1 and he got it pretty late in his career too, but nobody really trashed him or anything before he got it.
Even Durant pretty much gets a pass. If you are a hometown guy you get to take your time and if you do finally win it, it becomes a super big deal and just caps everything for your career. But some guys never won, like Karl Malone and Barkley, but most people understand they are all time greats anyway.
As I mentioned, it was a transition - it’s hard to say what exactly Bulls management would have done if Jordan stays. When someone like Jordan leaves, you look to restock the shelves based on what you have. Grant wasn’t a functional #2, good-bye. Pippen wasn’t a strong leader - so he couldn’t keep Rodman in check by himself. By no means am I pretending that the roster the Bulls had those 2 years would beat Houston, but they had that roster because they didn’t have Jordan. So I look at it as Houston versus the first 3 peat and Houston verse the second 3-peat - and I don’t see Houston beating either squad. Dream was 6-10ish and could be effectively dee’d up by a PF - either Horace Grant or Dennis Rodman, again - I’m not saying they shut him down, just they would prevent him from going off. As well, behind them you had the 3 bigs would could body up as necessary and at worst give you 18 fouls to prevent momentum. For every 3 that Houston could put up between Horry/Cassell/Jet - Chicago could match them in both ‘eras’. And you’ve got me wrong about what I said about Harper, no he wasn’t averaging 20, but he was effectively C-Bosh - he truncated his role from CLE as a primary option to play w/ Jordan/Pippen, but as needed, he could drop 20, the Bulls were never short on offense. Jordan didn’t have ‘all good nights’ and neither did Pippen, but when you add in Harper, you had someone who could always make-up for it.
AND that doesn’t even include…you know MJ or Pippen.
So yeah, Houston won those chips by default. And it’s no shots, they earned those rings, but ‘if’ Jordan didn’t retire, while I’m not going to say they go for 8 straight rings - fatigue would have most likely kicked in after 3-4, but Houston sure enough wouldn’t have gotten theirs.
- :bluu:
That’s a great pickup for them. Another one of those guys who IMO has been a victim of his surrounding rather than an inability to play.
Played for the Clippers before Sterling realized a basketball team should actually win games and then New Orleans w/ their abysmal front office.
So you’ve got Monta, Parsons, Dirk, Aminu and Chandler as your starting five? Nice.
Throwback Thursday, y’all…
WARNING: If you’re a Kings fan, you might want to skip this post…
But if you’re a Lakers fan, then enjoy!
This is my impression too. MN has a bunch of things going against them. 1. Love says he wants out 2. Nobody wants to go to MN 3. Rubio
Jk about Rubio but waiting for Love to walk and get nothing back will really jack up MN. Another thing, Warriors will have to absorb the bad contract of Kevin Martin. Is he washed up? Not sure but his defense is atrocious.